Mrs. Anthony Grade 2 Sea Animals

Whale

Anna Mrs. Anthony

What My Sea Animal Looks Like

• Grow to 100 feet• A few bristles• Has blow hole • Baleen teeth (plates)

like human fingernails• Fins spread from side

to side

Other Interesting Facts About My Sea Animal

• Spend summers in cold waters

• Beneath skin has layer of fat called blubber

• Largest animal ever lived• Once killed for meat and

oil• Oil used as a fuel for

lamps and cooking • Out of water quickly gets

too hot and dies• Breathe up to two hours

underwater

Shark

CameronMrs. Anthony


• All look different • Can grow up 40 feet• Can be 6 inches• Are usually blue or brown• Can weigh 1 ounce• Can weigh twice as much

as much as an elephant• Several rows of teeth• Shaped like a torpedo• Curved tail


• do not get cancer• caught for oil in liver for

Vitamin A • eat fish whole• also get caught for skin

and flesh • about 100 shark attacks

through the world• have sharp senses• live in open sea

Manatee

Christian Mrs. Anthony

What MySea Animal Looks Like

• Large sea animal • Front legs shaped like

paddles• Gray skin• Bristly hairs


• Grow up to 13 feet• Eats water plants• Live in Amazon and

Caribbean Sea• A good grip on the plants

as it eats• Lives along coasts of

Northeastern South America

Salmon

Alexander Mrs. Anthony


• Has shiny scales• Has fins• Has sharp teeth• It breathes with its

gills• It is big


• Five kinds live in the North Pacific Ocean

• One kind lives in the Atlantic Ocean

• Born in fresh water• Swim to ocean and spend

part of their lives there• Return to where they

were born to lay eggs• Fishing crews catch

salmon

Turtle

TaishaMrs. Anthony

What My Sea AnimalLooks Like

• Have no teeth• long beak• Two layers shell• live almost every

where • leather backed


• Pulls body in for protection

• cold -blooded• don’t live in cold

places• Some live in very cold

water

Starfish

Ashley Mrs. Anthony


• Spiny skin• Thick arms• Five arms• Tube feet


• Live in all oceans of world• Mouth on its belly leads

to baglike stomach• Feed on animals with

shells such as clams and oysters

• To eat it pulls shells apart with small tube feet

Crab

BryanMrs. Anthony


• Hard shell • Jointed legs• Five pairs of legs• Large claws


• Live in shallow water along seashore

• Eat mostly plants and plantlike things called algae

• Some kinds are good to eat

• Prowl the shore walking running sideways

Sea Otter

DavidMrs. Anthony

What your Sea Animal looks like

• Furry animal • Back feet shaped like

flippers • Grow to 4 to 5 feet

long• Thick brown fur


• Eat shellfish, octopuses, sea urchins and squids

• Live in the North Pacific Ocean• Hardly ever Ieaves the water• Sleep on floating seaweed

called kelp• Fur traps air and keeps them

warm and their skin dry• Uses flipper-shaped back feet

as paddles when it swims

Sponge

DuncanMrs. Anthony


• Has small pores or

holes• Feels soft • many different shapes

and colors • hard and soft

skeletons


• 1st few kinds live in fresh water

• Used as bath sponges

• Live attached to rocks

Squid

JanessaMrs. Anthony


• Have soft bodies• Some are less than

twelve inches long. • Some are up to sixty

feet long• Two fins• Have eight tentacles

on each leg


• mollusks• Related to octopuses• Squirt dark liquid

called ink to hide themselves from enemy

• Eat fish and tiny sea animals

• Live in open sea

Sea Otter

KetleyMrs. Anthony


• furry• grow from 4 to 5 ft• Thick brown fur


• Brown fur traps air and keeps their skin dry

• Hardly ever leave the water

• Hunted for fur• Eats and sleeps while

floating on back• Lives in North Pacific

ocean• Eats shellfish, octopus,

sea urchins, and squids

Swordfish

Mark Mrs. Anthony


• long sword-like nose• 5 feet to 8 feet long• smooth, muscular,

brownish-black bodies

• thin, curved fins


• Eats deep-sea fish and squid

• Swallows its food whole because it has no teeth

• pointy bill may help it swim uses it’s sharp bill to catch fish to eat

Sand Dollar

Rachael Mrs. Anthony


• Looks like fuzzy brown cookie

• Shape of a five painted star

• Thin circular body• Mouth in center of under

side• Body has small breathing

holes• Many tiny movable spines• Dried skeletons look like

large white coins


• Lives half buried in sand

• Feeds on tiny living things

• Among the sand grains or in water

• In shallow waters along seashores

Jellyfish

Jada Mrs. Anthony


• Body umbrella-shape

• Tube with a mouth• Four short arms • Long tentacles


• opens body like an umbrella and quickly shuts it to move

• movement squeezes out water and makes them move

• sting painful • sting poisonous to people

Dolphin

Schadrac Mrs. Anthony


• 4 to 13 feet (1.2 to 4 meters) long

• Short beak • Grey on the back• Lighter underneath• Shaped like torpedoes


• Among most intelligent animals

• Closely related to whales and porpoises

• Males are called bulls• Females are called cows• About 10 to 12 months

after mating females give birth to a baby called a calf

Clam

Longxiang Mrs. Anthony


• no head• no teeth• Strong body part

called a foot • No bones• Two shells together


• Kind of mollusk• Live along in an

ocean stream• Find food in sand

mud

Gull

AliviaMrs. Anthony


• have black and white feathers

• look like pigeons • Have long wings• Young birds look

grayish• Color change with

season


• Live near large bodies of water

• Related to terns• Feathers appear when

they are 2 or 4• Live near large bodies of

water• Do not fly as carefully as

terns• Often rest by floating on

water

Walrus

Timothy Mrs. Anthony


• 3,000 pounds• Long upper teeth• Flippers to swim• 12 ft• Sea animal • 3.7 meters long• Tusks as hooks• 11,400 kilograms


• Lives north• Eats clams• Fights polar bears• Tusks as hooks

Crab

SarahMrs. Anthony


• Hard shell • Jointed legs • Large claws • Shell covers


• Live in shallow waters

• Eat many kinds of water animals

• Eat mostly plants • Run sideways• Live in burrows

Education

Mrs. Anthony Grade 2 Sea Animals